Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
No. 03-4799
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Florence.
C. Weston Houck, Senior District
Judge. (CR-03-64)
Submitted:
September 1, 2004
Decided:
October 1, 2004
PER CURIAM:
Cory Collins pled guilty to armed bank robbery, 18 U.S.C.
2113(a), (d) (2000), and aiding and abetting, 18 U.S.C. 2
(2000) (Count 1); and using or carrying a firearm during a crime of
violence, 18 U.S.C. 924(c) (2000), and aiding and abetting, 18
U.S.C. 2 (Count 2).
We affirm.
teller counter and took money from the tellers while Willis Barrino
stood in the lobby with an AR 15 semiautomatic rifle shouting
directions to the bank employees.
Barrino came out of the bank, Cuff accidentally backed the Lexus
into a ditch.
ditch.
All three men got out and pushed the car out of the
Barrino
shot at the pursuers several times, then took the wheel of the
Lexus.
Carolina, a police car looking for their car saw and pursued them.
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All three
reckless
endangerment
during
flight.
At
the
sentencing
United States v.
An adjustment is made
For
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bank and that, like the defendant in United States v. Chong, 285
F.3d 343 (4th Cir. 2002), he was merely a passenger in the car.
disagree.
We
conspiracy when the police tried to stop the car for a traffic
violation.
Id.
whether she had any direct involvement in the driver of the cars
decision to flee in a manner that endangered other persons.
The facts in Collins case more closely resemble those in
United States v. Harrison, 272 F.3d 220 (4th Cir. 2001), cert.
denied, 537 U.S. 839 (2002), where the defendant committed a bank
robbery with several accomplices and the aftermath of the robbery
included shots fired at pursuing officers and a high-speed chase
involving two cars and two crashes.
the
conduct
of
the
appellants
co-defendants
was
reasonably
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AFFIRMED
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